The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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From copyrighted phutij hy c. D. Araold. Buffalo. 



The Bridge of Victory. 

 PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. 



Oakland district of Pittsburg on the 

 26th inst. and smashed thousands of 

 panes of glass in the big Phipps con- 

 servatories, Schenley Park. A pointed 

 fact noted in connection with it is that 

 while the ground glass was smashed un- 

 mercifully, the clear glass resisted the 

 storm practically unharmed. All was 

 double thick. ' P. A. 



BUFFALO. 



Busiaess. 



The Fourth of July is right here and 

 we never knew it in our lives to come so 

 quickly. Business has kept up later 

 than we have ever known it, and I be- 

 lieve the cut flower people would say the 

 same thing. The Buffalo man who says 

 the Pan-American is not doing him any 

 good is away off. So many visitors can't 

 come to this town and leave money with- 

 out its being a benefit to all the com- 

 munity, directly or indirectly. Many of 

 the state buildings have spent money 

 with our florists in decorating their 

 grounds, filling vases, etc., and on the 

 occasion of the dedication of their build- 

 ings flowers are in demand, so I believe 

 business all round will be considered 

 good. 



A little more than a month now before 

 the convention will be here, and from all 

 reports it is going to be a whopper. The 

 weather for the past ten days has been 

 so fearfully hot that it has told at last 

 on flowers. Carnations are getting small 

 and feeble and roses of good quality are 

 difficult to get. Sweet peas are coming 

 in freely. 



Visitors. 



All the florists are not waiting for the 

 convention to visit the Pan-American, 



and some may have been here that I 

 have not had the pleasure of seeing. We 

 met Wm. F. Henning of Detroic, Charles 

 Feast of Baltimore, Anton Then and wife 

 of Chicago. Mr. J. R. Fotheringham of 

 Tarrytown has been here for a few days 

 and F. R. Pierson is to arrive tomorrow. 

 H. H. Groff of Simcoe has been here 

 again and highly approves of the Pan- 

 American. Mr. Groff is going to make a 

 magnificent show of gladiolus here in 

 August. He is an amateur and an en- 

 thusiast, and that beats the professional 

 every time. Mr. W. A. Manda spent 

 Sunday here, and last, but not least (at 

 any rate physically), is another visit of 

 Harry Balsley of Detroit. It tak«s Har- 

 ry some time to do up Buffalo, and I have 

 no doubt it pays him for every minute 

 of time he spends. 



Pan-American Notes. 



With the exception of placing a finer 

 grade of gravel on the surface of a few 

 of the roads, which is now being done, 

 we can say that the Pan-American is 

 practically finished, and I have no doubt 

 that a sigh of relief goes up from the 

 director-general and all other responsi- 

 ble officials, for it has been a mighty 

 task. Last Thursday the attendance 

 reached 51,500, and today, Domjnion 

 day, there is another large crowd. These 

 numbers I believe compare favorably 

 with the World's Fair, which about this 

 time was averaging between 50,000 and 

 75,000, and they had a city of a million 

 and a half to draw from. 



The occasional heavy showers have 

 helped the appearance of everything out- 

 side. We have received a very fine col- 

 lection of fancy caladiums from Peter 

 Henderson & Co., which were placed in 

 the South Conservatory. In my last 



notes your report made the exhibit of 

 F. R. Pierson read, "400 Cannas." That 

 would not have been a very large ex- 

 hibit. It should read 4,000. There are 

 upward of 400 of some one variety. 



With very favorable weather and the 

 soil so suitable to the hardy roses they 

 seem now to be sending up a second 

 crop immediately, which is very encour- 

 aging, and beds which we thought we 

 would have to dispo.se of after the first 

 crop promise to be brilliant for some 

 time. Just at the present moment a bed 

 of Crimson Ramblers covering an area 

 of 1,500 square feet is a brilliant sight. 

 At a rough estimate there is about 300,- 

 000 buds and blooms. They will be in 

 perfection on the Fourth of July, an api 

 propriate day for such a blaze of color. 

 Henry A. Dreer has planted three large 

 beds of tuberous rooted begonias. These 

 are not considered satisfactory out of 

 doors but we have seen them make as 

 brilliant a show in Buffalo as geraniums, 

 and with careful cultivation we believe 

 they will again. The same firm has also 

 planted several very large beds of dahlias. 

 W. E. Hall of Clyde, Ohio, has sent 400 

 "Little Pink" geraniums. Mr. C. D. 

 Zimmerman of our city has planted a 

 very fine tropical bed. 



I am not sure that I mentioned that 

 we liavr two (cutiny Plants, or, more 

 coricilv. AL!:i\r A iiiciira lui, whlcli are 

 sciicliiiu up ciHU ni'iii- ll^nver stems and 

 will, I expect, be ill bloom the latter 

 part of July. I find very few people have 

 ever seen these gigantic succulents bloom. 

 The writer saw a pair of them bloom 

 many years ago. We expect the flower 

 stem to reach twenty feet. Some years 

 ago one or two of these plants flowered 

 in the city of Rochester and they were 

 considered such a sight that excursion 



